May 27, 2025 • 28 mins
Join TiredGato on this episode of TiredGato Talks as we dive deep into the Internet's most satisfying revenge stories. We're not just reading tales of comeuppance; TiredGato provides realistic advice and guidance for anyone facing similar situations. Learn how to navigate tough interpersonal conflicts and find your own path to a just outcome, informed by real-world scenarios from Reddit.
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Hey bestie, you made it. Let's be honest, everyone's
thought about getting revenge atleast once, right?
Whether it's a petty prank or a grand scheme, revenge feels so
good. And trust me, this episode is
all about the best ways people got back at their enemies.
Whether it was best for OP or best for the enemy, I don't
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know. Let's see.
Let's do it bestie. My ex got revenge on me in the
worst way possible and I have noway to clear my name.
This is why you always make sureyou have text messages or emails
or anything. Don't don't get played by the
player. Here's a pretty interesting one.
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A kid kept kicking my sandcastleso I built the next one with a
rock. So did you like build a
sandcastle with a rock or did you like throw a rock at it?
Who knows. So it was about 11 or 12 the
time and on vacation we were staying in a lake in Alberta and
it was honestly a good time. I built an amazing sandcastle.
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It had walls, towers, and even adrawbridge made out of
driftwood. Plus I built it on a platform
made of rocks halfway onto the lake, like a little island.
I mean come on. I even made decorative trees out
of a seed weed. Then the teenager struck.
The one kid went and kicked the sandcastle to bits and even
before I got a picture dying, mynext sandcastle I buried the
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heaviest, most jagged rock in the base.
Oh, you built it literally with rocks inside?
Oh my gosh. OK, my next sandcastle I buried
the heaviest, most jagged rock in the base.
The teenager went up to it and kicked it again.
Let's just say the castle lastedlonger than his foot.
My castles didn't get knocked down ever again.
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Now as a teenager myself, I still vividly remember this
event and it makes me laugh. Don't ruin people's works, kids.
Edit By base I meant like the bottom middle of the castle, not
under it. Sheesh.
Oh and just like this just brought up like a horrible like
a huge fear of mine. Don't step on things at the
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beach. Like if you see like, little,
like, like worn down, like sand castles or like things where
people just like, packed a bunchof sand and you just want to
like, you know, your brain was like, oh, let me step on it.
Like how you would like a fall leaf to hear it crunch or to
like, feel the texture, whatever, whatever you do it
for, right. Be careful.
There might be like, beer glass on that, Like, yeah, just food
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for thought. Top comments.
My siblings and I used to build jellyfish castles because of
this exact situation. They'd all wash up on the beach
and we would pile them up and cover with sand and shells so it
looked like beautiful. Something about putting in
effort made it more likely for people don't want to destroy it.
And then they jumped on it. They got covered in rotting dead
jellyfish. Up to the knees, yo.
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Oh, my God. But what about the people that
just step on it? Because eventually the sand,
like, like, the castle, like, deteriorates from the waves from
the shoreline. I feel so bad for somebody to
just walk in. This is what I'm saying.
Don't just step on things that look satisfying to step on.
OK, Like, I get it. Like, you're probably not an
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asshole where it's like, I'm just gonna step on a sandcastle.
But you gotta think about what happens through time, what the
shore does to it. That's horrible.
As a teen I had these two dickheads always kick my
backpack at the bottom while I wore it to I guess bust open my
lunch and let it destroy my books.
So I went home and cut some cement the board sheets to the
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exact shape of the bottom of my bag and wore it.
Said again. Dickhead tried impressing the
girls by kicking my bag. I saw it coming and brace for
it. He broke the board and two of
his toes. I ditched the cement board
before my teachers came to collect me for my version of
what happened. The dumb fuck never did it again
after being hit with every punchline there was about toes from
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the other kids as he limped around in a cast.
The memories says where if you fuck around you're going to find
out. Boss chiseled me out of $100 and
paid the price. I'm a contractor.
While working on a project in a very remote location, I arranged
to buy and bring 2 rounds of breakfast tacos for the staff of
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the county facility where I would be working for the next
week in exchange for free copy privileges.
The boss gave approval over the phone and the total for the
tacos that week came out to justover $100.
A great exchange as the copy budget was upwards of $1000.
Damn. My receipts along with the
supporting CC statement I submitted at the end of the
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billing cycle, between a week and two weeks after he'd
verbally approved, the expense was declined.
That's where you messed up, OP Paper trail.
Paper trail. Maybe that's that's the theme of
this episode now. It's not petty revenge, it's
paper trail. Trust nobody.
Also, fuck people that don't know how to raise their kids.
I wasn't too angry, but a deal'sa deal and I called the boss to
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remind him he'd approve the expense.
His response? You should have gotten gotten it
in writing. Pissed me off royally.
But I finished the project as promised and was working on
another project for another client less than a week later.
A couple of months go by and theboss who chiseled me into the
money called to see if I was available to work on another
project. Sounds like this boss has done
this to a lot of people with howcomfortable he is to bring you
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back. No shame, shame goes away when
it's a normal, you know, a normal behaviour.
I agreed the work schedule wouldbe tight and in his words this
was an all hands on deck projectwith nights and weekends
expected. I was also told this was a new
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client and they wanted to impress.
A couple of days before the project was set to begin, the
chiseler call to tell me the engagement paperwork was on the
way and check my e-mail. I told him I had decided not to
work the project after all, and he was furious.
He screamed. I mean screamed.
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You agreed to work on this project weeks ago.
I repeated his words verbatim. Oh my gosh.
You should have gotten it in writing.
Let's go. Round of applause.
Round of applause. Yes, Sir.
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You should have gotten it in writing.
You tell him, Opie. You tell him top comment had a
director do a verbal contracts aren't worth the paper they're
written on regarding back pay ona contract change.
I agreed with him and immediately cancelled all my
shifts as I was no longer under any contractual obligation.
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Told them they decided to rethink their attitude regarding
verbal contracts to call me. They called sometimes they when
they think they hold all the power, it's good to remind them
that they have nothing without the workers.
Yes Sir, well written and this comments fucking savage.
Well done. She erased us from her wedding,
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so I'm erasing her from mine. Hopefully not just the wedding.
Hopefully your whole life. Your whole life, bestie.
When my brother got married, hisbride, now my sister-in-law, had
a very specific expectation. She wanted everyone in the
family to wear their wedding colors, and we all did.
People flew in from out of states.
Everyone made an effort to make her feel celebrated.
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The day before the wedding she made some offhanded but clearly
pointed remarks about how our side of the family never takes
anything seriously and she wasn't expecting us to take this
seriously either. You would think you would
communicate that before a wedding.
OK, back to people only want to say things until like it
benefits them, not like in a holistic view.
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The comments made their rounds and feelings were hurt before
the wedding even began, but we still showed up, look great, and
participated. Fast forward to getting the
wedding photos and video. Not a single photo of our set of
the family was posted. Not one in the entire 3 minute
highlight reel. No faces from our family except
a three second clip of my parents with the bride and
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groom. The rest of us it's like we
never existed. It sounds like she already like
planted the seed to like expect like y'all to not get any
attention with that side handed comment.
I texted her and asked if she could send me the pictures but
just her siblings. Since then I've been posted.
She responded that we never tookthose pictures.
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That's wild because I remember helping people adjust corsages
for them. She doubled down on the
gaslighting. I gave it six months and then
asked again. She suddenly had no idea what I
was talking about. Fine, here's where the petty
revenge comes in. Oh OP, what are you cooking?
Let's see, let's see. We gotta let him cook.
Let him cook. I'm getting married in 8-8 days.
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I've been engaged in for. I'm so excited I can't even read
straight. I'm getting married in eight
days. I've been engaged for six months
and planning this moment since she tried to erase us.
I hired a great photographer andvideographer.
What she doesn't know is that the videographer has a secret
mission. Take it.
Make it look like she's getting all the attention.
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Damn, we got you paid people forthis revenge tracker.
Hover near her like she's the star of the show.
She would feel so seen. And then the final cut and she
won't appear for even one second.
Just like she made sure we didn't.
I didn't even invite her originally.
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Word must have gotten out because she quartered me at a
family dinner and said unfortunately I have to work the
day before and after your wedding but I should still be
able to make it. I was so stunned.
I just said that's fine, the Airbnb is booked whether you're
there or not. So now she's coming to cope.
I spelled her name wrong on the wedding invite on purpose.
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That was my first move. The video blackout will be my
last. Not asking for advice on asking
if it's too mean. It's not.
It's exactly fair. Happy to finally talk about it
freely. Oh ladies and gentlemen, my Lord
we have an update. Update.
The wedding was absolutely beautiful and I didn't have to
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think about this all day. We've been living on the love
high that comes with the weddingand forgot about anything until
YouTube remakes reminded me. Our videographer was given
verbal instructions beforehand and made sure to know who my
sister-in-law was as our sneak peek clips have been given back
to us. I've yet to see her in any of
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the footage. Our videographer told us they
still had over 200 gigabytes of raw footage.
So sister-in-law will definitelybe in some footage on a hard
drive somewhere, but she definitely will not end up on
any of our Instagram highlights.We'll see about that final
video. I definitely don't think this
would blow up like it did originally.
I only shared this with three girls in a book club.
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Thank you all for coming on thispetty revenge journey with me.
PS No idea how redditor updates work for those who care.
Trying to figure out if editing the original post is the way.
Should I put my final update on a new post?
Let me know, I don't want to leave you all hanging with this.
So that's end of the post. I hope they told her to make a
new post 'cause I need to know more.
I need to know more. Top comment for the level that
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is all petty. Update me.
Yes please, please update us another comment.
Actually, you can just instruct the photographer to take
unglamorous photos of her like her eyes are closed or weird
facial expressions and just postit on social media.
If she complaints you can just tell her.
Well at least everyone is in my wedding photos.
No, I like what Opie did 'cause it was like trying to make it to
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where you're playing with the sister in law's psychological
like perspective of the wedding experience and her ego.
Like you're stripping her of herego on that one.
She charged me $1200 and quote cleaning fees so I cleaned her
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reviews. Dude, did you make a bunch of
fake gmails and make a bunch of fake reviews?
OK, let's read it. I rented a small event space for
a surprise party. The place looked nice online,
decent price and the host seemedpolite enough until after the
event out of nowhere she hits mewith a $1200 deep cleaning bill.
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Said we left the place unusable,which was wild because we barely
used the kitchen and left it cleaner than we found it.
That was your first red flag OP?How are you going to run out of
place to be fucking dirty? I asked for proof.
She sent blurry photos of trash.Not even hours.
I appealed them through the booking platform.
Denied. I bet those blurry like photos
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were like AI photos. There's this girl went on
ChatGPT and went trash in room. That's what she just showed that
she was clearly running a side hustle scam a few 100 off each
booking and hope no one fights too hard.
So I did my own cleaning. I mean yeah her kitchen and now
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her. I found her business on every
platform I could. Yelp, Google, Facebook event
slide and left detailed calm onestar reviews with photos from
our events showing how spotless the place was when we left.
Turns out I wasn't the only one.What?
That's crazy. Sounds like shitty people do it
to everyone. My reviews picked up traction,
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others came forward with the same scam.
Within weeks her rating dropped from a 4.8 to a 2.9.
Last I checked she's offering 50% off all bookings.
Guess someone's trying to clean up her reputation.
What a cute way to end that. Very well written OPI wish I
could see these reviews. Top comment that is.
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Great, now someone you know should rent it out at 50% and
say how horrible the place is even at a steep discounts.
Dang, don't give OP any more ideas.
At least you didn't come back with.
Remove your review or we'll takeyou to court, which appears to
be the norm these days. Yeah, don't be scared by court.
Don't be scared by court. Another one.
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Good happy show the world. Her dishonesty lying has got to
be made out of style again. I respect that you took my seats
for the Minecraft movie. OK, My 7 year old spent a full
year excited to see the Minecraft movie.
He knew it was about to come on April 4th, but I bought tickets
for an early showing on Thursdaythe 3rd.
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Good, good parent. The plan was for me and his
sisters to pull him out of school a few minutes early and
surprise him. I think it's even cuter.
It worked beautifully until we got to our seats a week out.
I purchased 5 tickets for right in the middle of the F row.
I chose this row every time in our theater because it's that
was the first and the section. This means my kids won't be
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kicking anyone's seat or talkingright in their ear and don't
have to scooch pass to get to the bathroom.
Man, this parent is just like somany green flags.
When we got to the theater 15 minutes early, I found the
entire row was taken up by a rather large family.
There were also a lot of them. OK, time to get a worker.
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Easy peasy. I told the mariachi I thought
that they were in my seats. Double check my receipt for
theater and time. But she maintained that she also
had bought these seats. I walked down and grabbed a 17
year old usher I wasn't very confident in the authority of.
I told him I don't mind sitting in the G row, I just don't want
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someone else to come in having reserved those G seats and make
me the interloper. The woman fumble with her phone,
a little bit hemmed and hawed, but nothing came up.
Keep in mind this was a Thursdayafternoon, so there weren't a
lot of people filing into the theater.
The kid could tell something wasgoing on.
In the interest of modeling conflict resolution and saving
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the moment, I decided we take the G row and see what happens.
Cute petty revenge light bulb. And it doesn't have anything to
do with chicken jockeys. Oh that hurt reading that one.
OK OK, it was only us and them in the theater.
So I let my kids have a blast atthis movie.
I didn't shush them. I didn't care if they kicked the
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seats on the Afro, put their feet up, hell I would have let
them throw a little popcorn. But they didn't.
Every time an Afro interloper side and glared backwards, all I
did was shrug. It was glorious.
After the movie those people left behind other popcorn
buckets and trash like the scum.They were not shocking and I bet
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you they were also being loud asfuck.
I wouldn't be shocked. I really wouldn't.
Top comment. Years ago for one of the
Jurassic Park movies we reserved6 seats in a row, taking up most
of the seats of that row in the section.
We get there and there's two teenage kids in the middle of
our seats looking like a date. Apparently Told them they're in
our seats. They insisted otherwise.
I double check our tickets to confirm I'm right and we get
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staff to mediate. Kids got kicked out as they had
tickets for the next day. They had not insisted on those
seats. They could have moved elsewhere
and stayed. I like to think the date went
poorly after this. Or they just make really shitty
kids like that family and they just keep breeding and they keep
breeding and yeah, and it just keeps in this massive cycle of
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the uneducated making kiddos that shouldn't be making kiddos.
Maybe that's too much of a conversation that a lot of
people aren't ready for, but hell, I'm ready to talk about
it. Stop having kids if you're not
ready to have kids. Don't get me wrong, I don't
think anyone's ready to have kids, to put it bluntly.
But like, if you can't even takecare of yourself, dog, like
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what? A kids not like a dog.
Kids aren't like a cat. It's it's a lot more.
It's a lot more than that. The time a supervisor tried to
throw me under the bus, but I had receipts.
This is why you keep a paper trail, friends.
This happened in 2015 during my first year of teaching and
special education in America. I don't know if anyone else here
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works in special education, but if you do, you're probably
familiar with the difficult process of obtaining A1 on one
para for a student. So I have this kiddo, we'll call
him J Jay, had some unsafe behaviors as a kindergarten,
such as eloping from the school and into the neighborhood.
Yeah, that's fairly unsafe. That's I think that's I feel
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like there should be a more intense word for that than just
unsafe. It was terrifying to say the
least, and I beg safety concerns.
So I spoke with the supervisor, showed him the data, and he
agreed to the student definitelyneeding the one-on-one support.
My supervisor, Mr. C, worked with me for a couple of weeks on
the safety net process, getting a one-on-one.
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It was a lot of loops and jumps and saying the right thing in
very specific ways, but I got itcompleted.
I sent it to Mr. C for the last final review and it was met with
silence. I emailed him after a day
because we're at all busy in this field.
No worries, but more silence. I called his office and left a
voicemail with the secretary, but more silence.
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I try to get a hold of him for two weeks with growing worry
because the deadline was approaching but I never heard
back from him. After the due date passed.
He finally messaged me and said since I didn't reach out to him
when the final copy, the one-on-one wasn't approved.
OK, to me that sounds like he didn't realize how expensive it
would cost. And he's like, no, my bonus, my
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bonus sound like you already make enough money of these kids
with his lunch money. I was pissed, so I gathered
copies of all the emails, the phone calls, every attempt I
made to reach out to him and send it to his boss, Mr. B, head
of special education services. I also included Mr. C's last
e-mail. A couple days later, Mr. C sent
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me a formal letter apologizing through our district mailing
system. Mr. B granted me extension and
filed the paperwork himself and also granted me an emergency
one-on-one while the paperwork processed.
At the end of the year, Mr. C was fired from his position.
I thought it was me, but I'm sure my receipts had something
to do with his removal as a supervisor.
Yeah, they probably started questioning all the other things
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that like, people complained about.
Yeah, you kind of need a dig if things come forward.
And that's my story. I was telling it to a Co worker
here and he said I should post it under petty revenge.
I wouldn't consider that petty revenge.
I'd find nothing petty in the safety of a child and a adult
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that doesn't care about childrenbut works in a school in charge
of children's safety and education.
OK top comments. You're amazing for working so
hard to get a kid services. Fuck Mr. C.
Yeah, drop the names. Drop the names.
That's petty revenge. Drop the names.
I heard a great story from my days in the military and
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enlisted men keep sending an official application for special
training, promotion or commendation, something like
that. Someone in personnel keeps
losing it. It's pretty difficult to put
these together sometimes. Your permanent records since
enlisting, formal recommendations with signatures
from high people, etcetera. When the guy got fed up, he made
10 copies of the application materials.
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When he had to get them signed, he'd ask them to sign all 10
originals only, no copies, and explain why.
Eventually an officer way above his level told him if this one
gets lost, have them call me andI'll help look for it.
He delivered the application by hand to the person he suspected
of losing it. When he gave it to him he said
oh by the way I have 9 more and Jen Smith said he'd help look
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for it if it got lost. It did not get lost.
Oh man, oh man, like that littlestory.
So I read the comments. Another one.
I'd say Mr. C was specially educated at the system.
Well done. All right, if you're still here.
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So go ahead and hit that like button, subscribe, and let's
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And hey, if there's a spicy topic or subreddit mess you want
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This isn't just my channel, it'sour wonderfully judgmental
corner of the Internet. Now let's get back to the chaos.
Let's go judge these people. Here's another one.
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Sit in my seat and refuse to move.
Enjoy being uncomfortable. Last week I took a flight from
Athens, where I'd been visiting relatives to London.
It was a late flight, I was exhausted and the plane was
full. I was in a window seat, which
I'd chosen so I could rest my head against the walls and
sleep. But when I got to my room, there
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was a guy in my seat. He had big headphones on and had
his head turned away from me. What is this like person?
Like if you can't see, if I can't see him, he can't see me.
Burr's not a dinosaur. OK?
I tried telling him that he's inmy seat.
He doesn't respond, thinking maybe he can't hear me because
of the headphones. So I gently tap him on the
shoulder. No reaction.
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I try again, still nothing. That's how you know he's doing
it on purpose. He doesn't even turn towards me.
Edited to add he's not clearly asleep.
He's sitting upright and I can see his eyes are open.
I consider calling over a flightattendant to ask him to move,
but there isn't 1 nearby and I'mnot in the mood for it to be a
whole thing, so I just take the middle seat and quietly fume.
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What are you gonna do, like farton him?
I don't like what do you do in like a confined space for like,
revenge? OK.
A few minutes later, the young woman who is sitting in the
aisle seat arrives and takes herseat.
She is traveling with her friendwho is sitting in the window
seat in the row behind us. They are talking to each other
across their seats. Then the woman sitting in the
aisle seat turns to me and askedif I can swap with her so they
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can sit together. I say sure, no problem.
Bro's playing musical chairs. OK.
Now at this point it is important to point out that her
friend is very fat, borderline obese.
Bro Opie did everyone a favor inthis situation.
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Oh man, I'm a heavy guy myself but she's at least twice as
white as me. I probably would have even
swapped even if she hadn't been fat, but I saw a chance at
revenge. Man it's these people that get
to get on the plane but I get charged extra for my suitcase
being 5 lbs over. As I get up to move I see the
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guy sitting in my seat has turned around and realized what
is about to happen. He doesn't look happy and gives
me a look like he's saying please don't move.
I ignore him and swap seats. I spent the flight mostly with
my eyes closed as I nap and failto get a nap.
But I do occasionally have a look at the room in front of me
and I am very satisfied to see that the fat woman in front of
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me is taking up nearly half of the window seat as well as her
own seats. And that guy in my seat is
squashed up against the wall of the plane.
I hope he I hope he spent the flight thinking about how if
he'd just taken his own seat, he'd been able to swap the one
fat woman and I'd have been morethan one pinned against the
wall. Maybe next time he will think
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twice before he takes someone else's seats.
Also, I think it should be illegal.
Like these people should not be able to be touching other people
and being on other people's seats.
Like like not even the fact thatlike they're morbidly abuse or
whatever weight they are. If you pay specifically for a
seat, right? And that's how that works in
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that environment of a plane, nobody should be able to get
into your area that you reserve like hello.
Like, it's not like when you go rent a car, you can just be
like, Oh, no, I'm also going to like go ahead and be able to
share the other car with the other customer that's behind me
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just because I can, just because, yeah, like that
probably was a really silly likeanalogy, but that's how I feel
about it because it's like a service, It's something that's
there. It's it's the same way of like
reserving a table or cause a lotof reservations sometimes
require security deposits and then like going to sit at
somebody's table that's in the back or just going back in that
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area like you're not allowed to do that.
Why, why did we like let this shit go away on the planes top
comment I'd had kicked his seat continuously throughout the
flight if I was directly behind him.
Another one says you gotta love it when some idiot gets exactly
what he deserves. Beautiful.
Thanks for spending time with metoday bestie.
Did your brain short circuit a little?
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Don't take my advice for legal reasons.
I'll be here next time, same place.
Hey bestie, you made it. Let's be honest, everyone's
thought about getting revenge atleast once, right?
Whether it's a petty prank or a grand scheme, revenge feels so
good. And trust me, this episode is
all about the best ways people got back at their enemies.
Whether it was best for OP or best for the enemy, I don't
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know. Let's see.
Let's do it bestie. My ex got revenge on me in the
worst way possible and I have noway to clear my name.
This is why you always make sureyou have text messages or emails
or anything. Don't don't get played by the
player. Here's a pretty interesting one.
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A kid kept kicking my sandcastleso I built the next one with a
rock. So did you like build a
sandcastle with a rock or did you like throw a rock at it?
Who knows. So it was about 11 or 12 the
time and on vacation we were staying in a lake in Alberta and
it was honestly a good time. I built an amazing sandcastle.
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It had walls, towers, and even adrawbridge made out of
driftwood. Plus I built it on a platform
made of rocks halfway onto the lake, like a little island.
I mean come on. I even made decorative trees out
of a seed weed. Then the teenager struck.
The one kid went and kicked the sandcastle to bits and even
before I got a picture dying, mynext sandcastle I buried the
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heaviest, most jagged rock in the base.
Oh, you built it literally with rocks inside?
Oh my gosh. OK, my next sandcastle I buried
the heaviest, most jagged rock in the base.
The teenager went up to it and kicked it again.
Let's just say the castle lastedlonger than his foot.
My castles didn't get knocked down ever again.
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Now as a teenager myself, I still vividly remember this
event and it makes me laugh. Don't ruin people's works, kids.
Edit By base I meant like the bottom middle of the castle, not
under it. Sheesh.
Oh and just like this just brought up like a horrible like
a huge fear of mine. Don't step on things at the
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beach. Like if you see like, little,
like, like worn down, like sand castles or like things where
people just like, packed a bunchof sand and you just want to
like, you know, your brain was like, oh, let me step on it.
Like how you would like a fall leaf to hear it crunch or to
like, feel the texture, whatever, whatever you do it
for, right. Be careful.
There might be like, beer glass on that, Like, yeah, just food
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for thought. Top comments.
My siblings and I used to build jellyfish castles because of
this exact situation. They'd all wash up on the beach
and we would pile them up and cover with sand and shells so it
looked like beautiful. Something about putting in
effort made it more likely for people don't want to destroy it.
And then they jumped on it. They got covered in rotting dead
jellyfish. Up to the knees, yo.
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Oh, my God. But what about the people that
just step on it? Because eventually the sand,
like, like, the castle, like, deteriorates from the waves from
the shoreline. I feel so bad for somebody to
just walk in. This is what I'm saying.
Don't just step on things that look satisfying to step on.
OK, Like, I get it. Like, you're probably not an
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asshole where it's like, I'm just gonna step on a sandcastle.
But you gotta think about what happens through time, what the
shore does to it. That's horrible.
As a teen I had these two dickheads always kick my
backpack at the bottom while I wore it to I guess bust open my
lunch and let it destroy my books.
So I went home and cut some cement the board sheets to the
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exact shape of the bottom of my bag and wore it.
Said again. Dickhead tried impressing the
girls by kicking my bag. I saw it coming and brace for
it. He broke the board and two of
his toes. I ditched the cement board
before my teachers came to collect me for my version of
what happened. The dumb fuck never did it again
after being hit with every punchline there was about toes from
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the other kids as he limped around in a cast.
The memories says where if you fuck around you're going to find
out. Boss chiseled me out of $100 and
paid the price. I'm a contractor.
While working on a project in a very remote location, I arranged
to buy and bring 2 rounds of breakfast tacos for the staff of
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the county facility where I would be working for the next
week in exchange for free copy privileges.
The boss gave approval over the phone and the total for the
tacos that week came out to justover $100.
A great exchange as the copy budget was upwards of $1000.
Damn. My receipts along with the
supporting CC statement I submitted at the end of the
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billing cycle, between a week and two weeks after he'd
verbally approved, the expense was declined.
That's where you messed up, OP Paper trail.
Paper trail. Maybe that's that's the theme of
this episode now. It's not petty revenge, it's
paper trail. Trust nobody.
Also, fuck people that don't know how to raise their kids.
I wasn't too angry, but a deal'sa deal and I called the boss to
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remind him he'd approve the expense.
His response? You should have gotten gotten it
in writing. Pissed me off royally.
But I finished the project as promised and was working on
another project for another client less than a week later.
A couple of months go by and theboss who chiseled me into the
money called to see if I was available to work on another
project. Sounds like this boss has done
this to a lot of people with howcomfortable he is to bring you
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back. No shame, shame goes away when
it's a normal, you know, a normal behaviour.
I agreed the work schedule wouldbe tight and in his words this
was an all hands on deck projectwith nights and weekends
expected. I was also told this was a new
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client and they wanted to impress.
A couple of days before the project was set to begin, the
chiseler call to tell me the engagement paperwork was on the
way and check my e-mail. I told him I had decided not to
work the project after all, and he was furious.
He screamed. I mean screamed.
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You agreed to work on this project weeks ago.
I repeated his words verbatim. Oh my gosh.
You should have gotten it in writing.
Let's go. Round of applause.
Round of applause. Yes, Sir.
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You should have gotten it in writing.
You tell him, Opie. You tell him top comment had a
director do a verbal contracts aren't worth the paper they're
written on regarding back pay ona contract change.
I agreed with him and immediately cancelled all my
shifts as I was no longer under any contractual obligation.
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Told them they decided to rethink their attitude regarding
verbal contracts to call me. They called sometimes they when
they think they hold all the power, it's good to remind them
that they have nothing without the workers.
Yes Sir, well written and this comments fucking savage.
Well done. She erased us from her wedding,
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so I'm erasing her from mine. Hopefully not just the wedding.
Hopefully your whole life. Your whole life, bestie.
When my brother got married, hisbride, now my sister-in-law, had
a very specific expectation. She wanted everyone in the
family to wear their wedding colors, and we all did.
People flew in from out of states.
Everyone made an effort to make her feel celebrated.
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The day before the wedding she made some offhanded but clearly
pointed remarks about how our side of the family never takes
anything seriously and she wasn't expecting us to take this
seriously either. You would think you would
communicate that before a wedding.
OK, back to people only want to say things until like it
benefits them, not like in a holistic view.
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The comments made their rounds and feelings were hurt before
the wedding even began, but we still showed up, look great, and
participated. Fast forward to getting the
wedding photos and video. Not a single photo of our set of
the family was posted. Not one in the entire 3 minute
highlight reel. No faces from our family except
a three second clip of my parents with the bride and
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groom. The rest of us it's like we
never existed. It sounds like she already like
planted the seed to like expect like y'all to not get any
attention with that side handed comment.
I texted her and asked if she could send me the pictures but
just her siblings. Since then I've been posted.
She responded that we never tookthose pictures.
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That's wild because I remember helping people adjust corsages
for them. She doubled down on the
gaslighting. I gave it six months and then
asked again. She suddenly had no idea what I
was talking about. Fine, here's where the petty
revenge comes in. Oh OP, what are you cooking?
Let's see, let's see. We gotta let him cook.
Let him cook. I'm getting married in 8-8 days.
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I've been engaged in for. I'm so excited I can't even read
straight. I'm getting married in eight
days. I've been engaged for six months
and planning this moment since she tried to erase us.
I hired a great photographer andvideographer.
What she doesn't know is that the videographer has a secret
mission. Take it.
Make it look like she's getting all the attention.
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Damn, we got you paid people forthis revenge tracker.
Hover near her like she's the star of the show.
She would feel so seen. And then the final cut and she
won't appear for even one second.
Just like she made sure we didn't.
I didn't even invite her originally.
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Word must have gotten out because she quartered me at a
family dinner and said unfortunately I have to work the
day before and after your wedding but I should still be
able to make it. I was so stunned.
I just said that's fine, the Airbnb is booked whether you're
there or not. So now she's coming to cope.
I spelled her name wrong on the wedding invite on purpose.
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That was my first move. The video blackout will be my
last. Not asking for advice on asking
if it's too mean. It's not.
It's exactly fair. Happy to finally talk about it
freely. Oh ladies and gentlemen, my Lord
we have an update. Update.
The wedding was absolutely beautiful and I didn't have to
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think about this all day. We've been living on the love
high that comes with the weddingand forgot about anything until
YouTube remakes reminded me. Our videographer was given
verbal instructions beforehand and made sure to know who my
sister-in-law was as our sneak peek clips have been given back
to us. I've yet to see her in any of
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the footage. Our videographer told us they
still had over 200 gigabytes of raw footage.
So sister-in-law will definitelybe in some footage on a hard
drive somewhere, but she definitely will not end up on
any of our Instagram highlights.We'll see about that final
video. I definitely don't think this
would blow up like it did originally.
I only shared this with three girls in a book club.
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Thank you all for coming on thispetty revenge journey with me.
PS No idea how redditor updates work for those who care.
Trying to figure out if editing the original post is the way.
Should I put my final update on a new post?
Let me know, I don't want to leave you all hanging with this.
So that's end of the post. I hope they told her to make a
new post 'cause I need to know more.
I need to know more. Top comment for the level that
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is all petty. Update me.
Yes please, please update us another comment.
Actually, you can just instruct the photographer to take
unglamorous photos of her like her eyes are closed or weird
facial expressions and just postit on social media.
If she complaints you can just tell her.
Well at least everyone is in my wedding photos.
No, I like what Opie did 'cause it was like trying to make it to
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where you're playing with the sister in law's psychological
like perspective of the wedding experience and her ego.
Like you're stripping her of herego on that one.
She charged me $1200 and quote cleaning fees so I cleaned her
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reviews. Dude, did you make a bunch of
fake gmails and make a bunch of fake reviews?
OK, let's read it. I rented a small event space for
a surprise party. The place looked nice online,
decent price and the host seemedpolite enough until after the
event out of nowhere she hits mewith a $1200 deep cleaning bill.
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Said we left the place unusable,which was wild because we barely
used the kitchen and left it cleaner than we found it.
That was your first red flag OP?How are you going to run out of
place to be fucking dirty? I asked for proof.
She sent blurry photos of trash.Not even hours.
I appealed them through the booking platform.
Denied. I bet those blurry like photos
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were like AI photos. There's this girl went on
ChatGPT and went trash in room. That's what she just showed that
she was clearly running a side hustle scam a few 100 off each
booking and hope no one fights too hard.
So I did my own cleaning. I mean yeah her kitchen and now
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her. I found her business on every
platform I could. Yelp, Google, Facebook event
slide and left detailed calm onestar reviews with photos from
our events showing how spotless the place was when we left.
Turns out I wasn't the only one.What?
That's crazy. Sounds like shitty people do it
to everyone. My reviews picked up traction,
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others came forward with the same scam.
Within weeks her rating dropped from a 4.8 to a 2.9.
Last I checked she's offering 50% off all bookings.
Guess someone's trying to clean up her reputation.
What a cute way to end that. Very well written OPI wish I
could see these reviews. Top comment that is.
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Great, now someone you know should rent it out at 50% and
say how horrible the place is even at a steep discounts.
Dang, don't give OP any more ideas.
At least you didn't come back with.
Remove your review or we'll takeyou to court, which appears to
be the norm these days. Yeah, don't be scared by court.
Don't be scared by court. Another one.
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Good happy show the world. Her dishonesty lying has got to
be made out of style again. I respect that you took my seats
for the Minecraft movie. OK, My 7 year old spent a full
year excited to see the Minecraft movie.
He knew it was about to come on April 4th, but I bought tickets
for an early showing on Thursdaythe 3rd.
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Good, good parent. The plan was for me and his
sisters to pull him out of school a few minutes early and
surprise him. I think it's even cuter.
It worked beautifully until we got to our seats a week out.
I purchased 5 tickets for right in the middle of the F row.
I chose this row every time in our theater because it's that
was the first and the section. This means my kids won't be
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kicking anyone's seat or talkingright in their ear and don't
have to scooch pass to get to the bathroom.
Man, this parent is just like somany green flags.
When we got to the theater 15 minutes early, I found the
entire row was taken up by a rather large family.
There were also a lot of them. OK, time to get a worker.
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Easy peasy. I told the mariachi I thought
that they were in my seats. Double check my receipt for
theater and time. But she maintained that she also
had bought these seats. I walked down and grabbed a 17
year old usher I wasn't very confident in the authority of.
I told him I don't mind sitting in the G row, I just don't want
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someone else to come in having reserved those G seats and make
me the interloper. The woman fumble with her phone,
a little bit hemmed and hawed, but nothing came up.
Keep in mind this was a Thursdayafternoon, so there weren't a
lot of people filing into the theater.
The kid could tell something wasgoing on.
In the interest of modeling conflict resolution and saving
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the moment, I decided we take the G row and see what happens.
Cute petty revenge light bulb. And it doesn't have anything to
do with chicken jockeys. Oh that hurt reading that one.
OK OK, it was only us and them in the theater.
So I let my kids have a blast atthis movie.
I didn't shush them. I didn't care if they kicked the
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seats on the Afro, put their feet up, hell I would have let
them throw a little popcorn. But they didn't.
Every time an Afro interloper side and glared backwards, all I
did was shrug. It was glorious.
After the movie those people left behind other popcorn
buckets and trash like the scum.They were not shocking and I bet
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you they were also being loud asfuck.
I wouldn't be shocked. I really wouldn't.
Top comment. Years ago for one of the
Jurassic Park movies we reserved6 seats in a row, taking up most
of the seats of that row in the section.
We get there and there's two teenage kids in the middle of
our seats looking like a date. Apparently Told them they're in
our seats. They insisted otherwise.
I double check our tickets to confirm I'm right and we get
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staff to mediate. Kids got kicked out as they had
tickets for the next day. They had not insisted on those
seats. They could have moved elsewhere
and stayed. I like to think the date went
poorly after this. Or they just make really shitty
kids like that family and they just keep breeding and they keep
breeding and yeah, and it just keeps in this massive cycle of
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the uneducated making kiddos that shouldn't be making kiddos.
Maybe that's too much of a conversation that a lot of
people aren't ready for, but hell, I'm ready to talk about
it. Stop having kids if you're not
ready to have kids. Don't get me wrong, I don't
think anyone's ready to have kids, to put it bluntly.
But like, if you can't even takecare of yourself, dog, like
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what? A kids not like a dog.
Kids aren't like a cat. It's it's a lot more.
It's a lot more than that. The time a supervisor tried to
throw me under the bus, but I had receipts.
This is why you keep a paper trail, friends.
This happened in 2015 during my first year of teaching and
special education in America. I don't know if anyone else here
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works in special education, but if you do, you're probably
familiar with the difficult process of obtaining A1 on one
para for a student. So I have this kiddo, we'll call
him J Jay, had some unsafe behaviors as a kindergarten,
such as eloping from the school and into the neighborhood.
Yeah, that's fairly unsafe. That's I think that's I feel
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like there should be a more intense word for that than just
unsafe. It was terrifying to say the
least, and I beg safety concerns.
So I spoke with the supervisor, showed him the data, and he
agreed to the student definitelyneeding the one-on-one support.
My supervisor, Mr. C, worked with me for a couple of weeks on
the safety net process, getting a one-on-one.
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It was a lot of loops and jumps and saying the right thing in
very specific ways, but I got itcompleted.
I sent it to Mr. C for the last final review and it was met with
silence. I emailed him after a day
because we're at all busy in this field.
No worries, but more silence. I called his office and left a
voicemail with the secretary, but more silence.
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I try to get a hold of him for two weeks with growing worry
because the deadline was approaching but I never heard
back from him. After the due date passed.
He finally messaged me and said since I didn't reach out to him
when the final copy, the one-on-one wasn't approved.
OK, to me that sounds like he didn't realize how expensive it
would cost. And he's like, no, my bonus, my
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bonus sound like you already make enough money of these kids
with his lunch money. I was pissed, so I gathered
copies of all the emails, the phone calls, every attempt I
made to reach out to him and send it to his boss, Mr. B, head
of special education services. I also included Mr. C's last
e-mail. A couple days later, Mr. C sent
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me a formal letter apologizing through our district mailing
system. Mr. B granted me extension and
filed the paperwork himself and also granted me an emergency
one-on-one while the paperwork processed.
At the end of the year, Mr. C was fired from his position.
I thought it was me, but I'm sure my receipts had something
to do with his removal as a supervisor.
Yeah, they probably started questioning all the other things
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that like, people complained about.
Yeah, you kind of need a dig if things come forward.
And that's my story. I was telling it to a Co worker
here and he said I should post it under petty revenge.
I wouldn't consider that petty revenge.
I'd find nothing petty in the safety of a child and a adult
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that doesn't care about childrenbut works in a school in charge
of children's safety and education.
OK top comments. You're amazing for working so
hard to get a kid services. Fuck Mr. C.
Yeah, drop the names. Drop the names.
That's petty revenge. Drop the names.
I heard a great story from my days in the military and
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enlisted men keep sending an official application for special
training, promotion or commendation, something like
that. Someone in personnel keeps
losing it. It's pretty difficult to put
these together sometimes. Your permanent records since
enlisting, formal recommendations with signatures
from high people, etcetera. When the guy got fed up, he made
10 copies of the application materials.
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When he had to get them signed, he'd ask them to sign all 10
originals only, no copies, and explain why.
Eventually an officer way above his level told him if this one
gets lost, have them call me andI'll help look for it.
He delivered the application by hand to the person he suspected
of losing it. When he gave it to him he said
oh by the way I have 9 more and Jen Smith said he'd help look
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for it if it got lost. It did not get lost.
Oh man, oh man, like that littlestory.
So I read the comments. Another one.
I'd say Mr. C was specially educated at the system.
Well done. All right, if you're still here.
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So go ahead and hit that like button, subscribe, and let's
keep diving into the wild world of am I the asshole together?
And hey, if there's a spicy topic or subreddit mess you want
me to unravel, drop in the comments.
This isn't just my channel, it'sour wonderfully judgmental
corner of the Internet. Now let's get back to the chaos.
Let's go judge these people. Here's another one.
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Sit in my seat and refuse to move.
Enjoy being uncomfortable. Last week I took a flight from
Athens, where I'd been visiting relatives to London.
It was a late flight, I was exhausted and the plane was
full. I was in a window seat, which
I'd chosen so I could rest my head against the walls and
sleep. But when I got to my room, there
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was a guy in my seat. He had big headphones on and had
his head turned away from me. What is this like person?
Like if you can't see, if I can't see him, he can't see me.
Burr's not a dinosaur. OK?
I tried telling him that he's inmy seat.
He doesn't respond, thinking maybe he can't hear me because
of the headphones. So I gently tap him on the
shoulder. No reaction.
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I try again, still nothing. That's how you know he's doing
it on purpose. He doesn't even turn towards me.
Edited to add he's not clearly asleep.
He's sitting upright and I can see his eyes are open.
I consider calling over a flightattendant to ask him to move,
but there isn't 1 nearby and I'mnot in the mood for it to be a
whole thing, so I just take the middle seat and quietly fume.
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What are you gonna do, like farton him?
I don't like what do you do in like a confined space for like,
revenge? OK.
A few minutes later, the young woman who is sitting in the
aisle seat arrives and takes herseat.
She is traveling with her friendwho is sitting in the window
seat in the row behind us. They are talking to each other
across their seats. Then the woman sitting in the
aisle seat turns to me and askedif I can swap with her so they
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can sit together. I say sure, no problem.
Bro's playing musical chairs. OK.
Now at this point it is important to point out that her
friend is very fat, borderline obese.
Bro Opie did everyone a favor inthis situation.
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Oh man, I'm a heavy guy myself but she's at least twice as
white as me. I probably would have even
swapped even if she hadn't been fat, but I saw a chance at
revenge. Man it's these people that get
to get on the plane but I get charged extra for my suitcase
being 5 lbs over. As I get up to move I see the
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guy sitting in my seat has turned around and realized what
is about to happen. He doesn't look happy and gives
me a look like he's saying please don't move.
I ignore him and swap seats. I spent the flight mostly with
my eyes closed as I nap and failto get a nap.
But I do occasionally have a look at the room in front of me
and I am very satisfied to see that the fat woman in front of
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me is taking up nearly half of the window seat as well as her
own seats. And that guy in my seat is
squashed up against the wall of the plane.
I hope he I hope he spent the flight thinking about how if
he'd just taken his own seat, he'd been able to swap the one
fat woman and I'd have been morethan one pinned against the
wall. Maybe next time he will think
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twice before he takes someone else's seats.
Also, I think it should be illegal.
Like these people should not be able to be touching other people
and being on other people's seats.
Like like not even the fact thatlike they're morbidly abuse or
whatever weight they are. If you pay specifically for a
seat, right? And that's how that works in
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that environment of a plane, nobody should be able to get
into your area that you reserve like hello.
Like, it's not like when you go rent a car, you can just be
like, Oh, no, I'm also going to like go ahead and be able to
share the other car with the other customer that's behind me
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just because I can, just because, yeah, like that
probably was a really silly likeanalogy, but that's how I feel
about it because it's like a service, It's something that's
there. It's it's the same way of like
reserving a table or cause a lotof reservations sometimes
require security deposits and then like going to sit at
somebody's table that's in the back or just going back in that
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area like you're not allowed to do that.
Why, why did we like let this shit go away on the planes top
comment I'd had kicked his seat continuously throughout the
flight if I was directly behind him.
Another one says you gotta love it when some idiot gets exactly
what he deserves. Beautiful.
Thanks for spending time with metoday bestie.
Did your brain short circuit a little?
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